Is this picture of Brit boy bander Harry Styles "Cultural Appropriation"?

[superpatriotman]

The boy bander was heavily criticized after changing his Twitter and Instagram icons to this photo:




http://www.buzzfeed.com/emilyhennen/harry-styles-gets-heat-from-posing-with-a-native-american-he

[enlightenment]

1. No - it was a young man posing for yet another silly picture.

Apparently in some sort of western wear shop, based on the items in the background. Given that there seems to be another head-dress in the background, it would appear they are items for sale.

[Codeine]

2. It's a goofy kid wearing a costume in a western wear shop.

If he starts showing up at pow-wows and dancing then it would be a cultural appropriation. This isn't anything.

[Igel]

3. Yes. As if there's something wrong with that.

It's like taking a sample of something and using it in a different way. It can be mocking or a parody. It can be intended to be serious (and still be mocking or a parody in other's eyes). Or some can declare it to be "high art".

If we actually believe in the kind of freedom of expression we claim, we're stuck with the idea of some people, some groups--including those who have been historically oppressed--being offended. Nobody's offendedness is better than anybody else's offendedness. Mock Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, they're all the same. Mock George Washington or Robert E Lee or MLK, meh. If the mockery riles up nobody, those doing it to offend will stop doing it (and, at the least, the level of riledness in society will decrease) or do it for whatever their own self-satisfying ends are.

[Lucinda]

4. Nope.

[msongs]

5. look at all those cowboy boots! is it cultural appropriation for non-cowboys to wear those? nt